Poughkeepsie School Building

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“The Poughkeepsie School Building is a historic school building in Poughkeepsie, Arkansas, between Arkansas Highway 58 and Cherry Street. It is a single-story fieldstone building in the shape of an H, with front-gabled wings flanking a central horizontally-ridged section.”
Wikipedia article Poughkeepsie School Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 28 National Register listings published here for Sharp County · listed in 1992 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. AR 58 S of Co. Rd. 137, Poughkeepsie, 72569
When was it listed? September 1992
Category. building
Also known as. Public Schools in the Ozarks MPS
Township. North Big Rock township
National Register reference number. 92001198 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

83 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of Poughkeepsie School Building between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,797 acres in total. None started naturally. 26 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	33
Arson/incendiarism	26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	19
Equipment and vehicle use	5

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
5 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	6.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	8.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	30 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Sharp County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Poughkeepsie School Building: 7 unknowns, 6 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Lead. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Fugate Hollow	Zinc, Dolomite	Prospect
Mccaa Prospects	Lead	Past Producer
Unk	Zinc, Lead	Past Producer
Unk	Zinc, Lead	Past Producer
Lawrence Stone Property	Iron	Occurrence
Unk	Iron	Unknown
Unk	Iron	Unknown
Unk	Iron	Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Sharp County

Storms near this property

11 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Poughkeepsie, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1994 and 2018: 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Poughkeepsie	$225,000	Roofs were peeled off houses and sheds. A chicken house suffered major damage. Several sheds were lifted off their foundations and thrown into fences. Power poles were snapped in half and trees were uprooted.
July 2010	Flash Flood	Poughkeepsie	$1,000	Several low water crossings flooded, and minor street flooding occurred.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Poughkeepsie	-	Trees were down and limbs were snapped. A few power pole cross arms were broken.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Poughkeepsie	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down some large tree limbs.
May 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Poughkeepsie	-	Some trees were blown down.
August 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Poughkeepsie	-	Some trees were blown down.
June 2008	Hail	Poughkeepsie	-	no account filed
April 2002	Hail	Poughkeepsie	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Poughkeepsie	-	no account filed
March 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Poughkeepsie	-	no account filed
April 1994	Hail	Poughkeepsie	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sharp County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

1 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Little Springs Missionary Baptist Church	0.5 miles	2016

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 92001198 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sharp County	All 28 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.